The Winery Landgrafenhof of Rheinhessen

Winery Landgrafenhof - Dornfelder
The winery offers 18 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.7.
It is ranked in the top 8697 of the estates of Rheinhessen.
It is located in Rheinhessen

The Winery Landgrafenhof is one of the best wineries to follow in Rheinhessen.. It offers 18 wines for sale in of Rheinhessen to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Landgrafenhof wines

Looking for the best Winery Landgrafenhof wines in Rheinhessen among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery Landgrafenhof wines. Also find some food and wine pairings that may be suitable with the wines from this area. Learn more about the region and the Winery Landgrafenhof wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top red wines of Winery Landgrafenhof

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Landgrafenhof

How Winery Landgrafenhof wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pasta, veal or pork such as recipes of pasta with walnuts and treviso red salad, paupiettes à la mérignicaise or delicious marinated pork chops.

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Winery Landgrafenhof.

  • Dornfelder

Discovering the wine region of Rheinhessen

Rheinhessen is Germany's largest region for producing the quality wines of the Qualitätswein bestimmter Anbaugebiete (QbA) and Prädikatswein designations, with roughly 26,500 hectares (65,000 acres) of Vineyard">Vineyards as of 2014. Many of its most significant viticultural areas are favorably influenced by the Rhine river, which runs aLong its North and eastern borders. The Rhine, along with the Nahe river to the west and the Haardt mountains to its South, form a natural border. Rheinhessen covers an area south of Rheingau, north of Pfalz and east of Nahe, and is located within the Rhineland-Palatinate federal state.

The region has been cultivating Grapes for wine production at least since ancient Roman occupation. It's also the home to the oldest surviving records of a German vineyard. Named Glöck, the vineyard was included in a deed for a church and vineyards gifted by Carloman – a duke of the Franks of the Carolingian family and the uncle of the first Holy Roman Emperor, Charlemagne – to the diocese of Würzburg in 742. Within a century, dozens of villages were cultivating grapes throughout Rheinhessen.

An early documentation of Riesling as a distinct grape variety, identified as Rüssling, was also found in records from the city Worms dating back to 1402. The Size of the region, and its location on the Rhine, has given it a significant role in Germany's wine industry history. Its largest city, Mainz, has been an unofficial Center for wine trade, being home to several national wine organizations including the German Wine Institute and the Association of German Prädikat Wine Estates (Verband Deutscher Prädikats-und Qualitätsweingüter e. V.

The top white wines of Winery Landgrafenhof

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Landgrafenhof

How Winery Landgrafenhof wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, shellfish or spicy food such as recipes of mushroom, bacon and gruyere quiche, giant paella cooked on a wood fire or samoussa 3 reunionese cheeses.

The grape varieties most used in the white wines of Winery Landgrafenhof.

  • Riesling

Discover the grape variety: Dornfelder

German, intraspecific cross made in 1955 by August Karl Herold (1902-1973) between the helfensteiner and the heroldrebe (more details, click here!). With these same parents he also obtained the hegel. The Dornfelder can be found in Switzerland, United Kingdom, Belgium, Germany, Austria, Czech Republic, Canada, United States, ... . Virtually unknown in France, we nevertheless recognize a certain interest in it due to its short phenological cycle and the quality of its wines, both rosé and red.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Landgrafenhof

Planning a wine route in the of Rheinhessen? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Winery Landgrafenhof.

Discover the grape variety: Riesling

White Riesling is a grape variety that originated in France (Alsace). It produces a variety of grape specially used for the elaboration of wine. It is rare to find this grape to eat on our tables. This variety of grape is characterized by small bunches, and small grapes. White Riesling can be found in many vineyards: Alsace, Loire Valley, Languedoc & Roussillon, Lorraine, Provence & Corsica, Rhone Valley, Savoie & Bugey, Beaujolais, South West.

News about Winery Landgrafenhof and wines from the region

Courvoisier Mizunara: the launch of a collaborative Cognac

Described by Courvoisier as ‘daring’, ‘visionary’ and ‘a first-of-its-kind collaboration’, Courvoisier Mizunara was created by the house’s recently-retired maître de chai, Patrice Pinet, and Shinji Fukuyo, chief blender of Japanese whisky maker Suntory. The project dates back to 2015, when the president of Suntory visited Courvoisier at Jarnac shortly after Suntory took over Beam Global, the Cognac house’s then owner, in a deal worth US$16bn. Pinet expressed an interest in experimenting with miz ...

DOC Sicilia strengthens traceability with government-minted labels

Following the creation of the DOC Sicilia in November 2011, the region has taken a step further in guaranteeing the origin of traceability of DOC Sicilia wines by introducing mandatory government-minted labels on all its bottles. The State label, which is mandatory only for DOCG wines (in Sicily this applies to Cerasuolo di Vittoria only) is an important marker and identifier of the most important Italian DOCs: each label shows a unique alphanumeric code that traces the entire production process ...

Burgundy’s Charles Lachaux signs deal with Crurated club

The deal will see small-production wines of the Charles Lachaux négoce business offered exclusively to Crurated members, the new partners announced. Bottles will still be distributed separately to restaurants in several markets, they added. Lachaux is considered an exciting talent in a younger generation of Burgundy winemakers. Alongside overseeing viticultural changes at his family’s Domaine Arnoux-Lachaux in recent years, he launched his namesake micro-négoce business in 2018. From 25 July, th ...

The word of the wine: Vinification of sweet wines

Moelleux and liquoreux wines are characterized by the presence of residual sugars (natural sugar of the grape), not transformed into alcohol under the effect of yeasts. The fermentation is stopped by cold and by the addition of sulphur dioxide (sulphur).